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22 May 10

The Difference that Funding Makes

I have just learned that I have been awarded the major grant that I applied for: the Graduate Research Mentorship. The program provides a large stipend (even more than a TAship) and tuition remission. In the age of California’s budgetary apocalypse, student protests over UC tuition hikes, and my department’s inability to pay for copies [...]

3 Comments Posted in apocalyptic, career, funding, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
17 May 10

UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion Gets a Facelift

For the past academic year, the Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) at UCLA has been going through a transition from one director to another. My doctoral advisor, Scott Bartchy stepped down from his tenure as director for the CSR after over a decade of skillful and passionate leadership. Another professor with whom I [...]

0 Comments Posted in csr, religion, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
28 Apr 10

Guest Post: Bridging Tech and “Old School” Respect in the Classroom

Responding to my recent little series on laptops in the classroom (see parts one, two, and three), I got a lengthy comment from Barry Goldenberg, one of my current students in Western Civilization (Circa A.D. 843 to Circa 1715) at UCLA. Barry’s comment was so thoughtful that I figured it deserved its own post. Some [...]

0 Comments Posted in guest post, pedagogy, technology, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
26 Apr 10

Lectures and Laptops: Adapting Teaching Methods

To continue this series on laptops in the classroom (see parts one and two) . . . There is another issue here and that is whether we need to change the way we teach rather than ban laptops. Both Chris and Tim mention it: even the lecture shouldn’t be a straight lecture, but should encourage [...]

1 Comment Posted in fuller seminary, pedagogy, technology, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
26 Apr 10

Laptops in the Classroom: An Autobiography

Sharing my own experience, I would like to follow-up from my earlier post on what to do about laptops in the classroom. I feel like I’m embedded in the generational transition into this technological problem. I am part of the “in between”. When I was an undergrad, nobody brought laptops to class — even my [...]

1 Comment Posted in fuller seminary, pedagogy, technology, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
17 Apr 10

Getting Back Into Gear

Things have been sparse of late. The most recent problem was that I was apparently hacked and had some trouble getting my blog back in gear. But even without that, I have been terribly busy and just didn’t have time to blog. It seems that the winter quarter is busier than the others. In addition [...]

2 Comments Posted in blogging, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
13 Mar 10

Christians, Associations, and the State

I’m working on a paper on voluntary associations in the Roman world. The paper itself is not about Christ-confessing communities as associations, but is looking at the other evidence for collegia/thiasoi. Nevertheless, I was reading Stephen Wilson’s chapter to Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World and he had an interesting comment regarding Christian communities and [...]

0 Comments Posted in anabaptism, associations, books, christian origins, papers, politics, quotes, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
22 Dec 09

End of the Fall Quarter

Well, I survived another challenging quarter. This was my first one as a Teaching Assistant at UCLA and it took some getting used to balancing teaching responsibilities, my own research, and family life. Teaching took the bulk of my time this quarter. Though I know this is a life long struggle for academics, I will [...]

0 Comments Posted in Rome, academic life, social identity, teaching, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
12 Oct 09

Teaching the Bible as Western Civilization

Teaching the Bible at a Christian college is one thing. And teaching the Bible at a non-confessional (”secular”) university is, of course, something else. But teaching the Bible for one class session during a ten-week course on the foundational history of Western civilization is another thing entirely. That’s what I’m doing this week.
I am responsible [...]

9 Comments Posted in bible, pedagogy, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
26 Sep 09

Harvey Cox on "The Future of Faith"

Harvey Cox, the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard, will be stopping by my academic home next month. The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA will be hosting a lecture of his entitled “The Future of Faith” as its Dr. Marvin Fieman Lecture on the Future of Religion.
I’m not sure I’ll be [...]

2 Comments Posted in Harvey Cox, ucla by Patrick George McCullough

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